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Ortolans, The Cruelest Food Of All
2007-12-17 18:26:00 A little while ago I was emailed this story, and if it’s real (as best I can see so far, it is), I am resigning as a human being. If it is not real, whoever came up with this idea may want to look into thinking happier thoughts. Behold the Ortolan, a bird ... More About: Food
Something Old, Something New?
2007-12-13 21:58:00 You may have noticed that there is a brand new technology in town (as of the 1890’s): 3D movies. The cameras, post work flows and projection methods have improved greatly over time, but the underlying experience is pretty much the same- a normal movie is turned into a big spectacle that really must ... More About: Movies , Technology , Some
Jim Henson Rocks(/ed)
2007-12-12 18:41:00 This Jim Henson short, named “Time Piece” was screened in the Museum of Modern Art in New York back in 1965. It’s an interesting pre-Muppets glimpse into the brainmeats of Henson. You could admire it for the social commentary it makes, or for the way it works with the music. You could even appreciate the ... More About: Videos , Rocks , Jim Henson
Bipartisanship is Evil
2007-12-12 06:31:00 Folks, I’m sorry about the hasty ineloquent post here, but I’m really angry right now. As a big supporter of philosophy I just can’t stand how smear politics and just down right dirty maneuvering is ripping our nation’s pursuit of truth apart. It’s just horrible. I just saw the following video and really I’m so ... More About: Nietzsche , Evil , Artis
The Red One Is Go!
2007-12-11 03:11:00 If you are even the slightest bit interested in making your own films, then you must be aware of the now-released Red One camera. I’ve talked about it on here before. It’s the latest sensation that’s sweeping the nation, and the pictures it takes are certainly pretty. It has some issues that ... More About: Movies
QTVR @ 30fps: Immersive Video
2007-12-06 18:09:00 I am sure that most people have seen a Quicktime VR at least once by now. If you haven’t, check it out. The technology takes a spherical image, constructed from a series of stills that were shot from basically the same position using a tripod, and allows you to pan around anywhere ... More About: Video
Ask A Ninja Live - 12/05/07
2007-12-04 03:19:00 This Wednesday, Ask A Ninja will be performing live again, with a little help from their friends here at the AV Club [we’re doing the live video mixing]. Deets below. I anticipate a stellar show, what with the opening acts and the Ninja being awesomeness^4. If you are in LA, you should ... More About: Entertainment , Live
Doubletime On The Blogging Front
2007-12-03 20:55:00 Those of you who were around earlier this year will remember that I was asked to help out over on Transbuddha for a few weeks while Alphamonkey took care of his newborn twins. It was an honor and was great to write to a larger audience, but normalcy returned and while the invite to ... More About: Blogging , Front
Bob?s Big Date
2007-11-29 18:52:00 Psycho Bob is back once again, and this week he’s going out on the town with Betty, the only woman on Earth other than his mother who seems to understand him. This episode is the last episode of 2007 for Psycho Bob, thanks to all of you for watching and making it our biggest series ...
Join the team!
2007-11-29 00:07:00 In the past, I have posted about Folding@Home… but now it’s time for you to join the fight! The AV Club has started our own Folding@home team. Sign up today by entering the team number 94724 on your PS3 or Mac/PC client. Folding@home has recently (in the last year) gained a great deal of popularity thanks ... More About: Health , The Team , Join , Team
Writer?s Strike: What It?s All About
2007-11-28 18:55:00 Adam forwarded me this article that breaks down the numbers, and reveals in a decently unbiased way, what is at stake in the current strike. The basic overall gist, if you haven’t been paying attention, is that the WGA (writers), and the DGA, SAG and IATSE (directors, actors and crew) all want a better ... More About: Writer , Strike
Miro, Miro, On The Wall?
2007-11-27 22:02:00 We were contacted by the amazingly observant, and beyond helpful, folks from the Participatory Culture Foundation last week (you know them as the force behind Miro , the best podcatcher around). They noticed something that we missed, you missed, heck everyone missed: all of the podcast subscription buttons on our entire site were still Democracy ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Wall , The wall
Desert Bus Live!
2007-11-26 21:20:00 The genius brains over at Loading Ready Run are doing a live Desert Bus playing marathon for charity right now, and you can watch on the web right now. There is also a live IRC chat, they are over $11,000 in donations, and apparently Penn and Teller have been in touch with them and are encouraging them to keep pushing on for Vegas (and back… and Vegas… and back…). Words cannot express how brilliant this idea is, it’s just so completely made my week. If you do not understand why this is effing awesome, read all about the game and you will see the light. I loved L.R.R. before, now I want to have a million of their nerdy babies (Jess, we’re through, you and I). More About: Live
WWII MMORPG FTW!!!!1
2007-11-26 18:21:00 What if World War 2 had been an online massively multiplayer online role playing game? Well, this is what, but I think this is more of an IRC chat or MUD game, but that doesn’t make it any less funny (click the link here to see the whole thing): *Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.* *Eisenhower has joined the game.* *paTTon has joined the game.* *Churchill has joined the game.* *benny-tow has joined the game.* *T0J0 has joined the game.* *Roosevelt has joined the game.* *Stalin has joined the game.* *deGaulle has joined the game.* Roosevelt: hey sup T0J0: y0 Stalin: hi Churchill: hi Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks! paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks T0J0: lol Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression! benny-tow: haha america sux Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool? Hitler[AoE]: sure whatever Stalin: cool deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy More About: MMORPG
Multitouch Keyboard Coming?
2007-11-26 18:13:00 I am not one to spend my time reading and regurgitating Apple rumors, but just before I bought my iPhone I wanted to make sure that there wasn’t a new version days away from release. While I was poking around MacRumors I found the following tidbit, and I felt like posting it because of how interesting this would be. This is referring to the above pictured keyboard, the TouchStream keyboard, created by Fingerworks, a company acquired by Apple in 2005 and the brains behind Multitouch : While this design is space-efficient, the use of one surface to accomplish both typing and touch-sensing is less than ideal. Apple notes that traditionally, membrane or surface keyboards used raised ridges to denote key edges, however, this disrupts the surface when it is used as a touch device. Meanwhile, users have a hard time typing on a completely flat surface, so some form of key detection needs to be offered. The solution they come up with is quite interesting. They go through the motions... More About: Keyboard , Itouch
Vector Magic and Rasterbation
2007-11-23 18:29:00 This is a quickie post, but the services contained herein may soak up all kinds of free time, depending on how artistic you are. First is one that Chris will probably have more to say about than me: Vector Magic . This is a new online tool that you upload an image to, and ... More About: Internet , Design , Aster
Gravatars- ?Gimmick? Or ?Gimmie Gimmie??
2007-11-23 18:23:00 If you read my treatise on the need for centralized, confirmable identities on the Internet, then you will see where this is going, so bear with me or skip to the end because there is a question there for you to answer. I have been keeping an eye on Gravatar (globaly recognized avatars) for ...
Filter Out Stupid People From The Internet?
2007-11-21 18:49:00 Babs sent me the link to this one- a new project that aims to create a “stupid filter” that detects and filters out writing from stupid people, mostly in the form of comments on videos and blogs. I support this idea so much it hurts. You can read all about the project on ... More About: Internet , People , Stupid , The Internet , Filter
The Problem With Facebook
2007-11-21 18:06:00 My hatred of Myspace is well documented, but for those who have not heard me rail against it before, I can quickly sum my thoughts on the topic up: It is ugly. Really, really ugly. Uglier than Geoshitties, which is saying a lot. Letting 100 million people with no formal design training loose ... More About: Problem , Facebook
Video Trace = Easy 3D Modeling
2007-11-20 18:15:00 Click on the image above to see a video of what I am about to describe. Video Trace is a new program in development at the The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies that allows you to quickly create a 3d model of an object from video footage. There are other image-based modeling applications ... More About: Modeling , Easy
Beautiful Bunny Murders [Chocolate]
2007-11-20 01:29:00 Chocolade Haas was recently featured over on No Fat Clips, and I fell in love immediately. If you want to see the exact difference between a short film and a video clip, this is it. The careful choice of subject matter, materials, camera angles, lighting, music, and editing make this piece instantly ... More About: Movies , Beautiful , Chocolate , Bunny
iParody
2007-11-19 18:18:00 I was browsing around ye olde Stupidvideos and I found this gem. We were thinking about doing a spoof iPhone ad ourselves, but this is so well made that I think we will drop the idea and let this brilliance stand for all to enjoy.
We Need A ?Force Address Book Update?
2007-11-16 06:01:00 Dear everyone in my email addressbook, I have changed my email address, please use this one from now on… Who has not received, if not written, dozens of emails just like the one above? Why is moving email addresses so darn hard? Ever since the advent of number portability on cellphones, changing phone numbers is ... More About: Book , Force , Update , Address , Address Book
Epic Thank You:
2007-11-14 20:36:00 A huge “thanks for thinking of us!” goes out to Zadi and Steve over at Epic -FU for including us in this week’s episode. We were mentioned along with Ask A Ninja , Rocketboom, Smosh, Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary , Galacticast, Happy Slip, Ingredient X, and Lisa Nova, a very distigished crowd to be included in. ...
iPhone, Initial Impressions:
2007-11-08 21:39:00 Ok, so I caved and ran out to get an iPhone on Sunday. I have been thinking about getting one for a while now, and really am upset that I didn’t jump on the 4GB price slashing that happened a little while ago when they were discontinued. Craig even offered to drive me ... More About: Iphone , Communications , Impressions
Simply Incredible Human Screens
2007-11-05 18:08:00 This video shows soccer fans cheering their team on in South Korea… nothing too special right? Well, the images are produced using clothing, not cards held overhead. Each fan is wearing a two-tone jacket, one color on the front, one on the back, the third color is their shirts, revealed by opening up ... More About: Human , Simply , Incredible , Cree
Psycho Bob Update:
2007-11-02 19:59:00 Watch this video at YouTubeThe latest episode of Psycho Bob was released this Wednesday (Halloween, appropriate, eh?). This one features Mary Pat Farrell, of Splooginator fame, and Doug Sarine from Ask A Ninja and FOUND as Bob’s nosy neighbors. This episode was harder than most to edit, mostly because of how funny the ... More About: Update
Wal-Mart, Best Buy: Totally High (Def)
2007-11-02 02:38:00 Tomorrow, starting at 8am, as long as supplies last, Wal-Mart is selling the Thoshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player for $98. And if that wasn’t enough to cause a run on supplies, Best Buy has fired back with a $99 deal on the same player through their online site. In order to counter this price ... More About: Wal-Mart , High , Wal Mart , High def
Get Passive Agressive- It?s Fun For The Rest Of Us
2007-11-01 18:26:00 Check out Passi ve Aggressive Notes, it’s like Post Secret, only way more passively aggressive. It’s a blog that posts, with great little descriptions of the back story, different notes left by roommates, coworkers, building management, and others to try to correct the behavior of those around them. This site is hilarious- sometimes you ... More About: Entertainment , Rest , Passive
Kevin Ford Is Dr. Strict
More articles from this author:2007-10-30 18:16:00 In the forthcoming AV Club series “Team A.P.O.C.A.L.Y.P.S.E.”, four men are sent out on a mission by a lonely millionaire to fight extinction by finding and bringing back women. Kevin Ford plays Dr. Strict , a reluctant doctor who has not practiced medicine in years, but is forced to join the team to serve as ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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